What's the difference between lurk and murk?

Lurk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.
  • (v. i.) To keep out of sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
  • (2) The team is trying to identify a number of fair-haired men, possibly Dutch or German nationals, who were seen lurking around the apartment where the little girl was last seen in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  • (3) Bundled up in the complex debt parcels lurked the venom which has poisoned the banks.
  • (4) If she has a cold, or a hangover, she can feel her anxiety lurking.
  • (5) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (6) They push forward again, Alonso making ground down the left, then whipping an excitable cross to the far post, where no yellow shirts lurk.
  • (7) Everton's opening goal was very nearly one for Arsenal as John Stones played a loose pass across his own area with Giroud lurking.
  • (8) A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue , civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders "seal the deal" at Copenhagen, and the climate denial crowd had been reduced to an embarrassing rump lurking in the darker corners of the internet.
  • (9) Dangerous levels of private debt in China, bad debts lurking in Europe’s banking system, nervous consumers everywhere: it’s a nuclear device that needs careful handling.
  • (10) Lurking on the line, the Northern Ireland captain seemed to use his left arm to turn the ball past the post.
  • (11) Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food.
  • (12) Here there are two problems – one glaringly apparent, the other lurking in the shadows.
  • (13) However, recent collaborative studies between psychiatrists and GPs have identified that within this dilute pool of minor disorders, lurks a significant but poorly served population of patients suffering from depressive disorders which are by no means minor in degree.
  • (14) That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges.
  • (15) Zoran Tosic, once of Manchester United, also found Musa, who turned the ball in to a lurking Georgi Milanov but the midfielder was unable to collect.
  • (16) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
  • (17) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (18) That is the question that lurks, pulsing, beneath the slogans, the personalities, the big fight between Dave and Boris.
  • (19) Away from a largely house-price fuelled upturn in London and the south-east, another nation lurks behind the veneer of prosperity portrayed by senior ministers talking up recovery.
  • (20) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.

Murk


Definition:

  • (a.) Dark; murky.
  • (n.) Darkness; mirk.
  • (n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
  • (2) But far from clearing the murk that always surrounds News Corporation's dealings with elected power, he has greatly thickened the fog.
  • (3) Still, even today you can't poke your head out into an old New York building's rear light well without smelling the greed that forced so many to live in ill-ventilated murk.
  • (4) Every time you close your eyes, an imaginary gay man's imaginary penis rises from the murk, bowing ominously in your direction, sensing your discomfort.
  • (5) You have to admire the way the Indie keeps going through so much murk.
  • (6) Then, back in the murk, it may be easier to decide whether the deliberations of 115 world leaders have made the slightest bit of difference.
  • (7) Labor has been extremely concerned about the impact of this murk on marginal seat campaigns in NSW.
  • (8) However, at least in some quarters, there is a great will to encourage innovation and avoid the murk that accompanied gene patenting.
  • (9) But you have to be a pretty implacable Murdoch foe (or career politician) to try to turn misty murk into freezing fog.
  • (10) Only forecasters talk about “winteriness”, “spits and spots” or “mist and murk”.
  • (11) That’s the new media, that’s why things go viral.” Social media has deepened the murk.
  • (12) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
  • (13) This may be wrong, of course, but the sudden haste with which Mr Osborne has acted, and the murk that surrounds this decision, is puzzling.
  • (14) There was, however, an exception, a shaft of clarity and brilliance in the prevailing murk.
  • (15) Never escaping the murk becomes a moral and spiritual failure.
  • (16) The fourteenth reported patient with Murk Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia is presented, with a remarkable followup from birth to the age of 15 years.
  • (17) In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk.
  • (18) Upcoming debut album Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing was overseen by recent Björk collaborator Bobby Krlic AKA The Haxan Cloak, setting up an interesting tension between his trademark digital murk (exemplified by his 2013 album Excavation) and the heart-on-sleeve crusading of two of Roberts’s biggest musical heroes, Joe Strummer and Bruce Springsteen.